#machines

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#alternative #approach #concealed #deployment #detect

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. ↗

— Jose C. Orozco

#could #earth #fashion #into #iron

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#being #different #distributed #implemented #machines

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#called #dreams #forward #machines #memories

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ↗

— Lord Kelvin

#impossible #machines

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#appear #atoms #beings #biological #cells

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#chain #cheap #deprive #efforts #factories

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer. ↗

— Christo

#ideas #lots #machines #see #you

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#before #entertainment #form #had #machines

I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#bank #disability #etc #fitting #found